I never knew BBB but there always was quite a lot of chatter about him. Seemed like a great guy and a very important member if the forum. The legends I was told by Ellio, Pablo and the rest say that the forum began to lose activity when he was banned, but I wasn't around then so maybe some older members can confirm this.

Heh. Like the bubonic plague -- his presence is still felt, but in a much less virulent form.

Some of the old, pre-2016 forum comments by BBB I have read over the last two years would get you banned without warning in 2018. I understand the nostalgic reasons why he is fondly remembered for his idiosyncratic forum behavior, but there are multiple, perfectly valid reasons why he is no longer with us.

Heh. Like the bubonic plague -- his presence is still felt, but in a much less virulent form.
Some of the old, pre-2016 forum comments by BBB I have read over the last two years would get you banned without warning in 2018. I understand the nostalgic reasons why he is fondly remembered for his idiosyncratic forum behavior, but there are multiple, perfectly valid reasons why he is no longer with us.

I think if you look back on nearly every major suggestion in 2015/16 it turns into a debate of either Capitalism vs Communism or Nazi Germany vs USSR lol

From my perspective, the outcomes of those debates were definitively determined 27 and 73 years ago. Not much left to debate, unless you're some mush-brained college professor who still believes "socialism" is a viable alternative to representative government and free markets.